kaal:claim:3782198-019

The success of the open source movement itself creates a vulnerability: major corporations can pressure smaller projects to reveal their code, then take it and exploit the work more profitably than the startup can.

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Another problem is that the very success of the open source move- ment allows major corporations to pressure smaller projects to reveal their code, then take it and use their power to exploit the work more profitably than the startup.
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021), Open source culture, p. 16
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198

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failuresupport: arguedfailure: incumbent-appropriation-of-open-codefamily: regulatory-capture-and-incumbent-advantageopen-source-and-coderegulatory-failureinnovation

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